The MinecrAvenger situation.
Preface: I run a little MCSR News stream once a week/fortnight which gives credit to small streamers who have got a PB. This is usually pretty fun, lighthearted - but we also cover serious topics, including cheaters. I try to stay as neutral and unbiased as possible, but I have no media training, and if I mess something up - I'm sorry.
Recently; MinecrAvengerYT 's first ever 1.16.1 Minecraft Speedrun PB was found to be Spliced. This means he cut two different runs together - he had already played the seed, and recreated it, while removing the loading screen. On inspection of frames, it's clear to see - notice the timer discrepancy, and mouse movement in these subsequent frames.
However, the initial suspicion didn't come around from his Random Seed times, as this 22 minute PB was good for the time, but not impossible. This was because Eric wasn't a master of Random Seed Glitchless, instead specialising in the Set Seed Glitchless category, where runners play the same seed over and over to improve micro-mechanics, such as fast looting chests, crafting and placing blocks.
MinecrAvenger held the World Record multiple times in this category, with one peculiar run standing out, labelled "the fastest perch ever witnessed", where the Ender Dragon perched to the fountain in an abnormally fast time.
To ensure I don't get into too much technical detail that I am probably not qualified enough to talk about, the perch was seemingly impossible due to the height of the node that the dragon circles, and has yet to be recreated without the use of commands in-game. It has however, been replicated through command blocks; but this suspicion never really arose to anything - as this run was 2 years ago.
Recently, however, the Minecraft Speedrun moderation team had felt suspicious of his recent Obsidian rates from chests in the Set Seed Glitchless categories, for 1.15 (an older category).
On this older version, chest loot was different everytime a seed was recreated, and speedrunners had to obtain at least 21 obsidian in Blacksmith chests to be able to have a chance to complete the run, as well as have a good dragon perch time.
This chest loot, when analysed was shown to generate a higher rate of obsidian than normal for Eric; similar to Dream's pearl and blaze rod rates 2 years ago. The mods have calculated a figure in the region of 1 in 27 billion for this, however Minecravenger claims that this may not be fair - due to the "cherrypicking" nature of the runs. There are only 290 chests opened in a 37 minute VOD, making it a small dataset.
On the topic of Dream - MinecrAvenger was the first person to publicly call out Dream's modified luck, sparking many to now label Eric as being a hypocrite, calling Dream out, after having already cheated himself.
The final hard piece of evidence comes from the mod team's confusion regarding Eric's seemingly increased obsidian rates. In 1.15, all of the loot is generated according to a specific "Structure Seed", which is replicable - of which there are 2^48 possible layouts of chests. Matthew Bolan, a head mod from the Minecraft Speedrun community was able to code a program to check each structure seed against previously suspicious chest loot from MinecrAvenger's streams, and there were two anomalies.
This chest is NOT generatable in Vanilla Minecraft on the seed which was being played, which has lead the mod team to revoke MinecrAvenger's access to the Speedrunning Leaderboards. Eric still claims that the only cheated run was the splice from 2 years ago, assumedly putting these other discrepancies down to glitches in software.
Hopefully that explained in some more detail (with pictures - to help with the text wall), I'm happy to explain anything in replies and stuff because I'm always open to trying to help people understand more about the Minecraft Speedrunning community :) mcsr is super friendly and I urge anyone who's interested in this stuff to come and check us out! we dont bite :)
TL;DR - Eric, who called out Dream, cheated 2 years ago, and potentially still is.
> edit: i've been seeing little screenshots of chat messages from my chat today which have all been pretty damn funny - i've definitely given my opinions on dream in the past, and i've apologised for my fair share of bozo takes. we grow - and i hope im growing too :)
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Okay, so I was planning to post these along with the ref of the AU but I decided to post them now because I can, I am kind of proud of these- I had fun makin’ these for me and my friends to use in discord.
Endermoon/Enderman!Moon | Enderman + Moon/Moondrop
He was a little difficult to get right, but with some small inspiration/advice I managed to get his colours right to me. Everything else looked ugly to me ( you should see the first sketch I made, dear lord). But he felt satisfying and pretty. *Commence unintentional squid sister pose*
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Sunxolotl/Axolotl!Sun | Axolotl + Sun/Sundrop
When I finished this one, I felt that I loved this one most (I only had sun and moon finished at the time). I personally enjoyed my choice of colours with the light red and charcoal brown for this one, I was excited to make the full body ref of him. I also quite enjoyed coloring his eyelashes and dark red. He was fun to design.
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Witherclipse/Wither!Eclipse | Wither + Eclipse
Okay, now THIS
THIS was hell for me, the amount of colours I juggled between for this one was horribly draining, no matter how much I tried, I couldn’t make him look good with just the black/dark gray look, and I’m honestly upset with myself for going for the safe option which is dark red, but honestly what else am I gonna make him?… Dark red and dull purple? Oh, that might work…
I’m most proud of this one, with how deep and moody it looks, while also being colorful!
Before you say anything about him not having three heads, this is personally a design and lore choice, i will explain it when i release the ref. I tried my best with making him a Wither.
Hint: He’s Older.
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The Warden is Minecraft's most difficult boss.
It has 500 Health and can kill players in one hit with its ranged attack.
So, I decided to kill it with nothing. On a brand new world. In just one minute.
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Here's the Minecraft speedrun you were asking to see. Hopefully the link doesn't get borked: https://www DOT twitch DOT tv/videos/1909564343
OMG you're my hero! Google wasn't helping at ALL.
And omg!!! I like that the couple of false starts are in the video, kinda shows the player knows exactly what needs to happen to pull this off. XD Today I learned the fastest way to kill the dragon also lmao.
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